Customer Support Ruling

Customer Support Ruling

In-County Rates - Periodicals

REVISED April 2018

PS-069 (207.11.3)

This CSR discusses the standards for mailing subscriber and requester copies at In-County prices.

Domestic Mail Manual (DMM) 207.11.3.1, provides that In-County prices apply to subscriber or requester copies of any issue of a Periodicals publication when they are entered within the county of publication for delivery to addresses within that county if either of the following conditions is met:

  • The total paid circulation of such issue is less than 10,000 copies.

  • The number of paid or requested copies of such issue distributed within the county of publication is at least one more than 50% of the paid or requested circulation of such issue.

DMM 207.11.3.2, Exceptional Conditions, provides exceptional conditions to allow In-County prices for copies delivered outside the county.

DMM 207.11.3.3 prescribes that during a calendar year, the total number of nonsubscriber or nonrequester copies mailed at the In-County prices may not exceed 10 percent of the number of subscriber or requester copies of the publication mailed at the In-County prices.

A post office which is located in county "A" has a route that extends into county "B". An original Periodicals entry has been authorized for a general publication in the city served by the post office. All subscribers' copies which are mailed at that post office and which are addressed for delivery within county "A" are subject to the In-County Periodicals prices provided that there is compliance with the provisions of DMM 207.11.3.1. All subscribers' copies which are addressed for delivery in county "B" are subject to the outside-of-county Periodicals prices. However, under the exceptional conditions in DMM 207.11.3.2, a publication entered within the county in which it is published, but distributed outside that county on a postal carrier route originating in the county of publication, is treated as if distributed within the county of publication.

(signed)

Lizbeth J. Dobbins

Manager

Product Classification

Headquarters, US Postal Service

Washington DC  20260-5015